Evening Talk on “Disaster Preparedness – Updated on Coastal Flooding, Flood Forecasting, Earthquake and Hillslope Risk Mapping”

Organised by Disaster Risk Reduction Advisory Board (DDRAB), PPC, IEM &The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (Penang Branch)

Date     :  20 December 2017 (Wednesday)
Time     :  5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Venue   :  Penang Skills Development Centre (PSDC)
Speaker :   Ir. Loo Chee Kin, Chairman, IEM Disaster Risk Reduction Advisory Board, (DDRAB), PPC, IEM

This  talk  is  held  in  conjunction  with  the  National  Preparedness  Month.  The  month  of  October has  been officially designated by the government of Malaysia as ‘Bulan Kesiapsiagaan Nasional (BKN)’. October 13 had been declared as the  International  Day  for  Disaster  Reduction,  by  the  UN General  Assembly  in  1989.  This  is  time  to  increase  risk awareness and disaster reduction, which includes disaster prevention, mitigation and preparedness.  IEM is proud to present this talk as contribution to these causes.

The talk would focus on some of the efforts that IEM DDRAB had done for the 2017 coastal flooding, in particular for the Selangor state. As new information and resources for engineers and the community, this talk willalso cover some of the latest development in the flood forecasting, the draft Malaysian standards on earthquake and the hillslope risk mapping.

SPEAKER’S BIODATA

Ir. Loo Chee Kin is an active member in the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM). He is one of the founding members of IEM Disaster Risk Reduction Advisory Board (DDRAB) under the Standing Committee on Professional Practice (PPC), IEM. He is currently the Chairman of DDRAB. He is also committee member also serving as the Chairman of the IEM Mechanical Engineering Technical Division (METD), Committee Member of the Fire Advisory Board (FAB) as well as serving in various SubCommittees and Boards in IEM.

He is a Senior Consultant with Global Risk Consultants (GRC) and before that he was a Senior Engineering Specialist with FM Global. He has more than 20 years engineering experience, from design to field work, as well as natural hazard assessments.

He graduated from UMIST, Manchester, UK with a B.Eng in Electromechanical Systems Engineering and prior to that a Diploma in Electromechanical Systems Engineering from Kota Bharu Polytechnic in Kota Bharu, Malaysia. He is a P.Eng in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and a Member of IEM. He is a Member of IMechE and IEE, and registered C.Eng.

In the natural hazards field, Ir. Loo had done consultancy for flood, earthquake, windstorm, freeze and snow in various countries. In the area of flood, he advice project teams on site selection, building flood protection barriers, devise flood emergency response plan, compile rainfall and flood data, and review flood studies.

REGISTRATION FEES
Student                                   FOC
Graduate                                 RM20
IEM Member                            RM30
Non-IEM Member                     RM60
Senior IEM Members > 60yrs     RM20

Registration: on a ‘first-come first-served’  basis  Closing Date: 13 Dec 2017